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A51876	A Map of the whole world, or, The Orb terrestrial in four parts, (viz.) Asia, Europe [double brace] Affrica [sic], America : containing all the known and most remarkable capes, ports, bayes, and isles, rocks, rivers, towns and cities ... and a new exact geography, especially their longitudes and latitudes, in alphabetical order, and fitted to all capacities ...		1668 (1668)	Wing M559A; ESTC R43423	109,857	206

A MAP OF THE Whole World OR THE ORB Terrestrial in Four Parts VIZ. ASIA EVROPE AFFRICA AMERICA Containing all the known and most Remarkable Capes Ports Bayes and Isles Rocks Rivers Towns and Cities together with their Scituation Commodities History Customes Government And a new and exact Geography especially their Longitudes and Latitudes in Alphabetical Order and fitted to all Capacities A Work as well Usefull as Delightfull for all Schollars Merchants Mariners and all such as desire to know Forrein Parts Dii laboribus omnia vendunt LONDON Printed for Thomas Jenner and are to be sold at his Shop at the Entrance of the Exchange next Broadstreet 1668. TO THE READER OVr Fathers remember one man that drew the whole body of the Heavens in a short Plate which he presented to the Emperour of Germany And another that Comprehended the Ten Commandments the Creed and the Lords Prayer in one single Peny which he bestowed upon Queen Elizabeth We their Posterity have here all that the Industrious Collection of Strabo Pliny and the Judicious Observations of Pomponius Mela the choice Rarities of the Nubian Geography the deep and long Reaches of the Admired 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Three men esteemed Miracles of Nature among the Antients Plato 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Ptol. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ptolomy the great Industry of Gerard Mercator the often translated Cosmography of Sebastian Munster the worn-out German M. S. of Goldman the stately pieces of Bleau and Johnston the comprehensive Description of Lucas de Linda the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Ralph Volaterran the Great World of Great Ortelius and Maginus besides the Corographies of each Country * Pausanias of Greece as Guicciardane of the Low Countries Leanders of Italy Cambden of England The travels of the Experienced as Sandys Blunt L' Blance the Holstein Ambassadors all these sum'd up in 24 sheets above an 100l worth of Learning for 18d many ages knowledg of the whole world for a few hours study It 's strange though true to consider that the Gentlemans curiosity can pitch upon no Place Custome History of any part or all the World but here he hath satisfaction the Traveller desires to know no Country either for his Instruction in new Observation or Recollection of his old ones but here it 's fully described The Seaman seeth here in one day all Creeks Sands Ports Channels with the Longitude and Latitude of each place The Merchant all Commodities Imported and Exported into each Country with the Marts for them the time and place of trade for each of them the Novilant hath the scituation of each place of action he hears of the Schollar all the Governments Laws Alterations Inclinations Inhabitants Cities Laws and Customs of each Country Cato used to ask upon the proposal of any business to be done cui bono to what end is this And if thou ask cui fini to what purpose is the writing of this Book We answer 1. It is to prepare the younger sort with an exact introduction to larger Geographies 2. It 's to accommodate the more knowing with an exact account in the brief of their larger reading to help their memory 3. It 's to render History more pleasant for as the story maketh the place more remarkable so the particular knowledge of the place maketh the story more pleasant Ammian Marcellinus hath deserved well of the Common-wealth of learning by premising the Geography and Description of each part of the World before he attempted the History of the whole 4. It 's to render the Scripture in many places mentioned in it out of Chytraeus his Itinerarium S. Script and Adricomius his Terra Sancta more intelligible 5. It 's to furnish Physitians with the necessary knowledge of the temper of mens bodies in every Clime the nature and growth of simples and medicinal drugs in each Country to acquaint Lawyers with the Laws of Nations and Divines with the Religions of the World To hint to States-men the Genius of all people together with the Limits and Bounds the Weakness and Strength Advantages and Disadvantages of all States and Kingdoms And Lastly to entertain any Gentleman without any charge or pain with the particular draughts of Kingdomes Provinces Cities Towns Castles Continents Ilands Peninsulaes Istmus's Promontories Climes Horizons Meridians Zones all done beyond Clavius Sacro Bosco by Mr Hues his Book of the use of the Globes Streights or Fretes Creekes or Bayes Lakes Rivers with their Rise Course Channels Harbours Influxes done exactly by Aurigarius in his Speculum Nauticum Sr Tho. Reeves his Historia Navalis Pet. de Medina and Nonnius his Regulae Artis Navigandi Cities and Towns which may serve instead of Bruinus his Theatrum Urbium or Stephanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Revenues Strength Discipline out of Boterus c. and that too in as compleat a way as if he had travelled over either all the Books or all the Countries of the World whereof this little Book contains as handsome particulars administring to Discourse upon all occasions as any ingenious person that keeps Company can wish As little as this Book is it is not so Brief as to be Obscure onely there being no place for an idle word or letter in so exact a Piece we have expressed such known words as East West North and South Latitude and Longitude c. with the first letters of them and divided each Country into its Province assigning to each Province its Towns c. without any circumlocution Ornari res ipsa negat contenta doceri with the Bounds Scituation Length Breadth and Estate of each place of Note in the World whereby a man easily learneth how each place stands its self and with relations to all others what its Original is if now in being and what its former condition was if now desolate And all this with that exactness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist the subject matter is capable of A MAP OF THE Whole World Or the Orb Terrestrial in Four Parts viz. Asia Europe Affrica and America ASIA ASIA * Called so from Asi a middle because in the middle between Europe and Affrica Boch In Scripture called Semia from Sem bounded on the West with the Mediterranian Aegean the Helespont Propontis Thracian Bospherus and the Euxine Sea towards Europe On the South with the Carpathian Sea and the Southern Ocean towards Affrica On the East with the Indian Sea and Mare-del-zur towards America On the North with the main Scythick Ocean all Sea-bound except a narrow Istmus in the South-west towards Affrica † It s Scituation Scituated E. and W. from 52 to the 169 degree of Longitude N. S. to the 82 degree of Latitude to the Aequator longest day except in Northern parts 12 hours length 5200 breadth 4560 miles famous for being the Scene of the Creation Redemption and first Monarchs of the World Here 's Mount Taurus from Lycia to the Indian shore

51 32 Welky 49 54 Welles 51 21 Werden 57 51 Weroy 67 34 Wesenburg 59 52 Wesina 56 61 Westerdal 60 35 Westerisen 57 31 Westerwick 57 40 Westkiel 58 33 Weysen Stein 58 52 Whitby 54 24 Wiburg 56 33 Wieliss 56 58 Wielkielakie 58 56 Wien 48 44 Wight J. 50 23 Wihitsch 45 44 Wilcomirz 55 50 Wiliki Novogorod 59 58 Wilton 51 22 Winchester 51 23 Windaw 57 47 Wineta J. 53 39 Winnica 49 56 Wismar 53 36 Wisoczk 51 44 Witep●k 56 56 Wladislow 52 44 Wlodimer 56 70 Wlodzunerz 51 52 Wlogda 60 76 Worm J. 53 39 Wolmer 57 52 Wolluck 51 66 Wolok 56 56 Wolossok 58 60 Worcester 52 21 Worms 49 34 Woronies 52 68 Wortzbu 50 36 Wtsiers J. 58 29 Wyborgh 61 53 X Xarie 40 23 Y Yarmouth 52 26 York 54 23 Youhall 51 14 Yrnen 56 19 Ynica J. 34 28 Z Zachapeita 64 65 Zagori J. 48 62 Zagrahia 46 44 Zante J. 37 50 Zara 45 44 Zarnis 43 55 Zaslow 50 54 Zator 50 46 Zawolocze 57 55 Zea J. 38 57 Zeby 57 34 Zell 48 42 Zenobiz 45 48 Zenonis 48 67 Zers 45 52 Zeverinum 46 49 Ziericzee 51 29 Ziget 46 46 Zilz 44 52 Zysseza 57 58 Zolaritzo 64 64 Zornajam 56 64 Zurich 47 35 Zwonik 44 47 THE Description OF AFFRICA AFFRICA Bounded South with the Sea of Aethiopia W. by the Atlantique between it and America N. Mediterranean and Europe W. Red Sea and Asia like a Pyramis reversed hath I. Aegypt N. Mediterranean S. Abbissine Empire W. Barbary and Lybia E. Bay of Arabia very hot but for the high Towers they build to Air themselves on and * Called Horrewn populi Romani fruitfull by the overflowing of the Nile for it never raineth there in Cornes VVines Pasture Cattle Lemmons Pomgranates Cherries Figs Citrons Oranges the usefull † Where they make Sallads with the pith bedsteads and latices with the branches cordage with the huske Baskets mats fans with the leaves Palm-trees where first were taught Hyeroglyphicks and afterwards Letters the People tawny and degenerate famous for the Labirinth the Pyramids and the Pharos the Crocodile and the Ichneumen the Nilus overfloweth June 15. and returns to its Channel September the sixth The People and Cattle in the mean time keeping the Hills having Inned their Harvest in May it must overflow between fifteen and sixteen Cubits above water else it betokens an Alteration in the State on the Banks are the Papyri which served for the first Paper and Frogs would eat the People but that the Storks eat the Frogs Here is the Red Sea over which the Spices of India and Arabia are carryed into Alexandria Here 's 1 Damiata on the Ruines of Pelusium towards Idumea Heros and Betsames on the Arabian Gulf Zioth Sues a poor station for making the Turkish ships out of the woods of Cilicia to command the Gulf * Burned by a King who being told that an honest womans water might cure him and trying many to no purpose burned them in this town Gleba Rubra Scanderia formerly Alexandria famous for its University and Library on a Promontory over the Sea and the Lake Maeotis pretty well traded by all Nations neer the much frequented Rosetta on the Nile and Munia Sibuit the ruines of Memphis Caire arising out of the Ruines of Babylon eight miles round full of large and impregnable Streets with its strong Castle rich and pleasant accommodations and a Pestilence every seven years the too rank soil of Matared with eight or nine other little Towns on the Sea or River the fair and large Sayet Tentira Coptos Diospolis the Ruines of Thebes Ptolomais these in the Provinces of 1 Aegypt properly so called 2 Augustanica 3 Arcadia 4 Thebais Libia Marmorica and Cyrene being now little other than Deserts II. Barbary hath I. Tunis bounded N. Mediterranean VV. Algiers S. Atlas E. Cyrene which hath 1 in poor Ezab enriched by Mesurata and Sibeca two trade-towns on the Sea II. VVest of that Tripolis where 1 Tripolis on the Ruines of other little old Towns well traded and governed by the Turks the retreat of Pyrates that infest the Coasts of Sicily Italy c. III. Tunis VVest of Tripolis where besides the Ruine of Carthage and other places stands now 1 Tunis raising upon the Ruines of Carthage well frequented by the Genoan and Venetian Merchants with the strong fort 2 Goletta built for the defence of its Haven 3 Cairoan where all Turks desire to be buried III. Constantina * St. Augustines birth-place Bona affording Fruits and Butter to the Merchants of Genoa Tunis and Zerby Cucutina well traded for VVool Cloth Silks Oyle Fruits Dates Slaves and Hot baths IV. Bugia most west-ward which hath in it rich Bugia on the side of a hill neer the Sea in a fertile soil wealthy Collo pleasant * Where is good store of Goats Horses and Wood. Nicaus II. Algiers W. Fez Morocco E. Tunis where 1 the Pyratical Trade Towns Tetuan Sargel and the fair Algiers on the little chain'd unsafe Haven with its several trades in several streets on the rising of a steep hill and the Pyrates that infest the Mediterranean 2 Decayed Tremesen Siga Guagyda unhappily seated between the Algier men and the Arabians with Tigedent Butha Ned Rima * Where the people paint their cheeks and hands with a black cross Brosch 3 The good Haven town Oran on the Mediterranean under Spain with Tebocrit and its Weavers III. Fez and Morocco W. of Algiers plentifull in Grain Pulse Oyl Honey Sugar Dates Grapes Figs Apples Goats and Chamlets 1 Hath the rude and unpeopled Guzula 2 Susa with its Gold Mines Sugar-Canes and Amber where the important Cape de Aguer rich Tagavast and Tejent on the Sus and poor Massa on Cape Gilon Tarodant the French and English Staple for Sugars 3 Morocco where though defaced by the Portugez are rich and large Morocco Jewish Antera Heretical † Where is a new heresie of Mahumetans ●emnella fruitfull but ruined Agret Secfi●a * Where it snoweth all the year Elgiumba on the Session well fortified Tenezze Imizmizi Tes●ust upon the Asifnuad 4 Barbarous Hea where nothing of ingenuity but Chyrurgeons to circumcise their Children and Readers to teach them the Law here is Tednef on the Tensift where the Gentry cast lots which shall entertain a * With his Barley meale pap which they eat on the ground Stranger the Sea Towns Tenent under the Portugez as the well traded Port Tecubeth Iguillin Guiguil the little Haven Tefethne Tesegdelt and the cut-throat Tefethne 5 Depopulated Ducala where onely Tic Azafi Azame Elmedina on the Ommiroboli Old Ezo Elviniana Alemdine Togodast most trade towns under the Portugez as are Tezza and Ezza these places in Morocco 6 Desolate Temesna where poor Iejet on the Ommirabili and its Smiths I hagia well fenced Adendum destroyed Amsa Munso Nuchaina Rubat Fanzara Allahmer fair * Against which Ch. I. sent and upon the